Entrepreneurs meeting 06.09.2010
“Entrepreneurship for the Future”
Is your business ready for the future?
More often we notice how important it is to subject a business to good strategies. Which direction is your business going towards, which paradoxes in society can we foresee, and how should you as an entrepreneur respond to these paradoxes. The before mentioned cases and other aspects will be the central topic for the entrepreneurs meeting ‘Entrepreneurship for the Future’.
The SME Portal Maastricht University would like to cordially invite you to this meeting, which will be opened by the vice president of the university’s Executive Board, André Postema.
After the plenary opening, you will be welcome to join one of the following master classes:
Value creation through risk management
As a result of changes in the political climate, the emergence of up-and-coming economies such as in Brazil and China, and the credit crisis, the prices of raw materials have fluctuated increasingly over the past few years. This volatility has made risk management more topical than ever. Prof.. Ir. Joost Pennings, ALEX Investment Bank Professor of Behavioural Finance and professor of Marketing at Maastricht University, is an authority in the field of risk management, and in this master class he addresses the use of various instruments for managing price risks.
Innovation in family businesses
Are family-run businesses more innovative than other companies? This is the central question in the master class to be delivered by Dr. Anita van Gils, Dr. Yannick Bammens and Drs. Nicolas Classen, all from the Department of Strategy and Organisation at the School of Business and Economics. They present the findings of recent research into innovation in familyrun businesses, and lead an interactive discussion to identify factors that promote innovation in such businesses.
New leadership
As a consequence of the economic and financial crisis, important questions have been raised in public opinion about the way in which leadership manifests itself within and towards organisations. There is a clear need in society for a new type of leadership. In this interactive master class, Prof. Dr. Mariëlle Heijltjes, professor of Managerial Behaviour and responsible for postgraduate education at the School of Business and Economics, addresses the question what new leadership entails in this context, and what this means for you as a leader.
Asian Emerging Markets and a new paradigm for business strategies
Global economy and international business are witnessing a decisive shift in the center of their gravity. Dr. Sanya Sharma, director of the India Instituut Maastricht University provides in this session provides a timely and fine-tuned understanding of this changing paradigm of global business, and of how new players in international business are rewriting the rules and setting norms. He touches upon specific opportunities and challenges in emerging markets and offers food for thought on various business strategies to realize these opportunities and to tackle these challenges.
Directly after the entrepreneurs meeting, the official ceremony for the Opening of the Academic Year will take place from 15.15 h in Maastricht's Theater aan het Vrijthof. This year’s theme is “University for the Future”. You are warmly invited to attend this ceremony as well.
The entrepreneurs meeting costs €25 per person; you will receive an invoice after you register.
Click here to subscribe for this entrepreneurs meeting and to make a choice for one of the above masterclasses.
Programma
11.30-12.30 Registration and Lunch
12.30-13.00 Opening speech
13.00-14.30 Masterclasses
14.30-15.00 Network drink
15.15 Official Opening of the Academic year in the Theatre at the Vrijthof
Location
Maastricht University, School of Business and Economics, Tongersestraat 53, 6211 LM, Maastricht. In the near surroundings of this location parking space is limited. Therefore we advise you to park your car at the parking garage at the Vrijthof. From this parking it is only a few minutes walk to Tongersestraat 53.